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[150] This was accomplished by the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The Fifteenth Amendment, proclaimed in 1870, already prohibited exclusion on the ground of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

[151] This aspect of the matter is admirably discussed by Miss S. P. Breckenridge in _New Homes for Old_, Chapter VI, on “Care of the Children,” especially pp. 153 _et seq._, Americanization Studies, New York, Harper & Brothers, 1921.

[152] See chap. ix, p. 255 _et seq._

[153] _Report of the Commissioner of Naturalization_, 1919, p. 16.

[154] _Ibid._, 1918, p. 28.

[155] _Report of the Commissioner of Naturalization_, 1918, p. 28.

[156] _Report of the Commissioner of Naturalization_, 1916, p. 46.

[157] _Report of the Commissioner of Naturalization_, 1919, p. 73.

[158] Quoted in “The Immigrant Woman and the Vote,” by Vira Boardman Whitehouse, in _The Immigrants in America Review_, September, 1915.

[159] _Ibid._

[160] Quoted in “The Immigrant Woman and the Vote,” by Vira Boardman Whitehouse, in _The Immigrants in America Review_, September, 1915.

[161] See Table XLV, and accompanying comment, in this volume, p. 362 _et seq._

[162] See Appendix Tables of Occupations, Tables LXIII and LXIV.

[163] See chap. ix, on “The Foreign-born Woman in Politics,” p. 296 _et seq._

[164] McMaster, _History of the People of the United States_, 7:370--cited in Warne’s _The Tide of Immigration_, p. 242.

[165] Moisei Ikovlevitch Ostrogorski, _La Démocratie et l’organisation des partis politiques_, Paris, 1903, vol. ii, pp. 94-95. Translated into English by Frederick Clarke, with preface by James Bryce.

[166] Moisei Ikovlevitch Ostrogorski, _La Démocratie et l’organisation des partis politiques_, vol. ii, p. 345. See also “The Alarming Proportion of Venal Voters,” by J. J. McCook, _The Forum_, vol. xv; “The Sale of Votes,” by J. B. Harrison, _The Century_, vol. xlvii; and “Money in Practical Politics,” by J. W. Jenks, _ibid._, October, 1892.

[167] The _Outlook_, New York, January 14, 1911, vol. xcvii, p. 42.

[168] William S. Bennet, address, “The Effect of Immigration upon Municipal Politics,” before Conference for Good City Government, and Fifteenth Annual Meeting of National Municipal League, in conjunction with American Civic Association, at Cincinnati, November 15-18, 1909. See _Proceedings of National Municipal League_, 1909, p. 142 _et seq._

[169] _Popular Science Monthly_, New York, October, 1914, vol. lxxxv, pp. 397-403.

[170] William S. Bennet, address, “The Effect of Immigration upon Municipal Politics,” before Conference for Good City Government, and Fifteenth Annual Meeting of National Municipal League, in conjunction with American Civic Association, at Cincinnati, November 15-18, 1909. See _Proceedings of National Municipal League_, 1909, p. 142 _et seq._

[171] The spirit and methods of the Grand Rapids Americanization Society are described in chap. x, p. 330 _et seq._, in this volume.

[172] William Bennett Munro, _The Government of American Cities_, Macmillan, 1912, pp. 36-37.

[173] _American Labor Year Book_, 1916, p. 133.

[174] Peter A. Speek, _Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin_, No. 878, 1917, p. 129.

[175] John M. Gillette, _The Survey_, March 1, 1919.

[176] Paul Frederick Brissenden, Ph.D., _The I. W. W., a Study of American Syndicalism_, Columbia University, 1919.

[177] _Congressional Record_, June 2, 1906.

[178] See Appendix, Tables LIX and LX, Analysis of Denials, pp. 433-435.

[179] In an article in _Better Times_, organ of the United Neighborhood Houses of New York City.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

Some Tables were in the middle of a paragraph; these have been moved to the end of that paragraph or a nearby paragraph.

Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.

Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained: for example, vanishment; assimilable; vicinage; disfranchise; arrearage; eachness; ancestorial; demarkation; undotted; upspringing; protestors.

Pg 25: ‘including pol tics’ replaced by ‘including politics’. Pg 64: ‘Happerstett’ replaced by ‘Happersett’. Pg 93: ‘of any Asiastic’ replaced by ‘of any Asiatic’. Pg 187: the blank line (thought break) before ‘Commissioner Campbell ... ’ has been removed. Pg 229: Table XVI: the Note numbering order has been changed from {3},{1},{2} to {1},{2},{3}. Pg 245: Diagram 2 caption: notation ‘((filled with / character))’ inserted. Pg 414: ‘convinec the court’ replaced by ‘convince the court’. Pg 435: Table LX, row ‘All countries’: ‘033’ replaced by ‘3,033’. Pg 446: Table LXVI, heading: ‘BRICK AND’ replaced by ‘BRICK &’.

Index. Cases: ‘Friedd’ replaced by ‘Friedl’. Index. Cases: ‘Lapiz’ replaced by ‘Lopez’. Index. Cases: ‘Happerstadt’ replaced by ‘Happersett’. Index. Cases: ‘Lagtry’ replaced by ‘Langtry’. Index. Cases: ‘Mackay’ replaced by ‘Mackey’. Index. Cases: ‘Mulcreay’ replaced by ‘Mulcrevy’. Index. Claghorn: ‘Holliday’ replaced by ‘Holladay’. Index: ‘Filipines’ replaced by ‘Filipinos’. Index: ‘Flourroy’ replaced by ‘Flournoy’. Index: ‘Robenson, Helen Ring, 306’ replaced by ‘Robinson, Helen Ring, 326’. Index: ‘Roumanian’ replaced by ‘Rumanian’.

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